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My Favorite Visual Studio 2012 Extensions
Today is the official launch of Visual Studio 2012 so I thought I’d share some of the extensions I’ve been leaning on for the last few months. Visual Studio 2012 is a great step forward all by lonesome. The in-the-box enhancements below have been great as our teams and I adopted…
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Sign up for Southwest Ohio GiveCamp 2012
I’ve tweeted this incessantly so I won’t be offended if you just rolled your eyes. We have over a dozen proposals from local charities this year and we are hoping to help the vast majority at SWOGC 2012. In order to give them a thumbs up, we need to know about how many volunteers…
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Crickets: Messages Are Only Useful If Received
A peer gave me a call today to vent about a meeting that didn’t go well. He had spent the last few months working on some really cool stuff that should benefit the company quite a bit. An almost direct bottom line impact. Doesn’t get much better than that at work. Unfortunately,…
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Easy Github Code Reviews with diffgist in PsGist
A few minutes ago I merged a pull request from Tim Heuer for a PowerShell command, diffgist (New-DiffGist), based on the gist command in PsGist. With it you can create a gist from git diff in one go. Great for quick code reviews and other feedback. With diffgist there’s a nice…
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Lightning Talk: Experiences with Feature Focused Apps
Scrum.org Face-to-Face Gatherings The weekend prior to Agile 2012, Scrum.org hosted a face-to-face gathering of trainers. These are a mandatory part of being a Scrum.org trainer and it’s a great time. These are bright and passionate people that really want to make the world of…
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Headless Javascript Testing with Visual Studio 2012 & Chutzpah Test Adapter
[Update: The amazing @mmanela has fixed the bug in my original video. Get the latest Chutzpah from VS Extensions. I’ve re-recorded the video also.] More often than not, I’ll use the jasmine-node nodejs module for javascript testing. It provides continuous testing/auto testing and…
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Failing Builds Aren’t Your Problem
Lets just say, as a group, we don’t have a lot of urgency to fix the builds ~ Concerned Team Member at Big Company It’s a Signal, Not a Problem I remember building my first significant build system based on CruiseControl.net, nunit, Wix, and a LOT of pixie dust. Every failed…
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Feature Focused Javascript Apps
Common Closure, Not RSI! Common Closure, Not RSI! Some time last year I started getting really annoyed. Every time I picked up a new app, I had to open at least three rather busy folders to grok what was going on. Maybe you’ve heard of them: Models, Views and Controllers Yeah, I…
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Terrible Exception message building custom Nuget VSIX Extension
Today I was putting together a custom build of the Nuget 2.0 Visual Studio Extension (VSIX). My client has an extranet where they publish their Nuget feed(s) and it’s behind an authenticated proxy server. It used to be that the extension would use the VS credentials, but there’s…
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“We’re Agile, We do Scrum”
A recent discussion that included a variation on the phrase “We’re Agile, we do Scrum” spurred me to poll our AIS team members and follow up with a blog post. I wanted to share that blog post with you all as well. Scrum Is the Means, Not the End Here at Applied information…